Portrait of Baron Willem Joseph van Ghent
Also titled Portret van Willem Joseph baron van Ghent
Rombout Verhulst (Mechelen, 1624–1698)
in or after c. 1673 - in or before c. 1676
- Medium
- terracotta (clay material)
- Classification
- sculpture
- Dimensions
- height 42 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Lieutenant-Admiral Willem van Ghent was fatally wounded by English fire during the Battle of Solebay on 7 June 1672. He was 46 years old. The outcome of the battle against a joint English and French fleet was indecisive. Van Ghent was buried in the Domkerk in Utrecht. This death mask is a study for his tomb, which Rombout Verhulst completed in 1676.
